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When the Supreme Court finally does decide to hear the farm laws matter, for many petitions that deal with equally contentious decisions taken by the current government continue hanging fire in the apex court. (PTI)

Manish Tewari | Bolstering corporates was intent of farm laws

Farm laws are intended to give Corporate India a legal licence to muscle in on these small guys who have unequal or no bargaining power

18 Jan 2021 1:33 AM

Pedestrians walk on a near-deserted Westminster Bridge in central London on January 16, 2021, during the third nationwide novel coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Long lockdown defeats Britons; Spurs’ shot in the arm for soccer fans

We have vaccinations slowly covering the population but as of now it will be Easter before the over 50s will be covered

18 Jan 2021 12:50 AM

Given its abject failures on the economic front, the BJP/RSS regime in New Delhi is now pushing India towards a Hindutva nationhood, by seeking to victimise a minority for the perceived wrongs and slights of the past. (Representative Photo:AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | An important lesson from India’s history for PM Modi

An intolerant religion can never be the basis of nationhood and national unity in India

17 Jan 2021 4:29 AM

I’m not the sort of writer who spent the Pandemic lockdown carefully crafting my creative skills and honing my “talent” so I could write that exemplar novel, that series of high philosophy essays to understand humanity, that definitive book on the state of the nation. (Representative Photo)

Ranjona Banerji | My one true calling… and how life got in the way

As an adolescent, like most others, I wrote those poems. Emotions crystallized in show-off nonsense from studying literature

17 Jan 2021 4:14 AM

The Akalis, who have been the major political voice of the Sikhs, have not been in the forefront of the agitation now that they walked out of the government and the NDA on the very same issue. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Why Akali Dal’s voice is missing in farmers’ stir

It is not clear what the equation is between the Akalis and the leaders of the farmers’ unions

17 Jan 2021 4:06 AM

This year elections are due in two states in the east -- West Bengal and Assam -- and three states/UTs in the south -- Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. It’s important to note that all these are now governed by different parties and no party has a government in more than one state. (Representative Photo)

Sanjay Kumar | Elections 2021: A mixed bag of hope & challenges

2021 is going to be more eventful, as five states are going to the polls in the middle of this year

16 Jan 2021 12:05 AM

The deniers of vaccination who pose a puzzle are those who have no such complete theory of the universe. What they have instead is the Internet through which the most abject nonsense is spread. (Representational Photo:AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Time for all to get Covid jabs; don’t listen to ‘anti-vaccers’

There are millions of idiots around the world who are anti-vaccers

16 Jan 2021 12:00 AM

Dilip Cherian | Karnataka home secy shunted out for calling Safe City ‘scam’

Public spats are rarely pretty and the one between these two senior IPS officers has brought out the intense rivalries in the service

14 Jan 2021 12:11 AM

A health worker shows the Covishield vaccine, after arrival of the first batch of the vaccines from the Serum Institute of India. (PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Is ‘new normal’ really a return to the old ways?

For a fleeting while, optimists wondered if the Covid-19 pandemic had sledgehammered some fundamental lessons into us

14 Jan 2021 12:03 AM

Devi Kar | Educational activism of a different kind is needed

Educators have observed to their satisfaction that many examination reforms were necessitated by the current Covid-19 pandemic

13 Jan 2021 11:22 AM

Aakar Patel | On Republic Day, time to reclaim our basic rights

None of the rights and liberties that the Constitution saw initially as being “fundamental” are present in the original form today

12 Jan 2021 10:50 AM

Asad Durrani | The Three Ks: Some old ideas revisited

The concept was heavy on strategy and avoided concrete steps unless they were required to illustrate an argument

12 Jan 2021 10:44 AM

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | Sitharaman’s Third Act: What’ll be her Big Idea?

The FM can spend money and secure early results and Ms Sitharaman has promised to spend a trillion rupees on infrastructure investment

11 Jan 2021 7:18 AM

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has announced that it will not be inviting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Sikh centenary events in protest against the Centre’s 'anti-farmer' stand. (Photo:PTI).

Anita Katyal | Divide and win Sikh farmers; artist’s mighty snub to govt

It would seem that the BJP is playing a cat-and-mouse game with former Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, who joined the BJP last March

10 Jan 2021 8:40 AM

The wonder is that most parents do eventually cope with the daunting task of loving and serving unconditionally. (Representational image. Pixabay)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | C-virus funk? Relax, and respect the kids

There are so many moving parts, any of which could pitch the game against the parent or the child

10 Jan 2021 7:32 AM

Justice Sanjiv Khanna (Photo credit : Wikipedia)

Pavan K. Varma | Why J. Khanna dissented from Central Vista ruling

Justice Sanjiv Khanna, in his dissenting judgment, used a very telling expression to describe the undemocratic opacity of the government

10 Jan 2021 7:17 AM

An illustration picture shows a vial with Covid-19 Vaccine sticker, a syringe and an earth globe. (AFP)

Of Chinese virus, Spanish flu, UK strain: Do points of origin matter?

Of course, viruses, just like us Parsis, are sometimes named after the things we do and sometimes after the places from which we come

09 Jan 2021 7:38 AM

Indian Parliament (Image credit : Wikipedia)

Ashwani Kumar | Reassert ‘core’ values & halt democracy’s decay

As the highest forum of democracy, Parliament too cannot escape its share of responsibility for our faltering record on human rights

09 Jan 2021 7:21 AM

Karan Thapar | Hindus and patriotism: Why RSS chief is wrong

However, I suspect that Mr Bhagwat would simply brush aside all the evidence of history that I have just marshalled

08 Jan 2021 4:49 AM

Now, the cases heard by the Supreme Court have anywhere between two and 30 parties. Who decides who will be unmuted? (PTI)

Mary Mitzy | Ensuring justice in virtual courts: Who controls the mute button?

Today, nine months on, the Supreme Court still takes up only urgent matters for hearing

08 Jan 2021 4:06 AM

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